ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The honorary mayor of a tiny Alaska town is noticeably absent this week, when he should be hanging out at the general store or sipping his water-catnip concoctions from a wine glass at the pub next door. Instead, Stubbs the cat is sedated and under veterinary care after he was...

Ah, Labor Day. Time for a moment to relax and look over the past year and gear up for the next. The Good News is that the sequester is almost over. The Bad News is that the federal government has become so dysfunctional with arguing that it has become the norm making the sequester look minor. ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — This is fur real. Colonel Meow has 9-inch hair. That's good enough to put the Himalayan-Persian mix into the 2014 edition of the Guinness World Records book, due out Sept. 12. Owners Anne Marie Avey and Eric Rosario, of Los Angeles, say the 2-year-old cat got its name because o...

As have many community newspaper websites across the nation, www.mySouTex.com installed a paywall on Wednesday, Aug. 28. Much of the site’s content will remain accessible to all outside the paywall – including videos, classified ads, banner ads, blogs, contests, section pages and more. Subscribe...

As the worm turns... From The Atlantic - From "Blame Canada" to "Worthwhile Canadian Initiative," Americans love to mock their large, icy neighbor to the North, aboot whom they often know very little but the occasional lilting of their accents? That impulse toward good-humored, neighborly ribbing...